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Post by ahkyahnan on Mar 4, 2011 12:55:35 GMT -5
I found a neat link yesterday where you can buy 'made to order' DVD sets from Warner Brothers for some of those HB cartoons that haven't been released in stores. They're still official, they just manufacture them one at a time as they receive orders. The packaging looks like it's the same sort of multi-tray standard case used for 13 Ghosts, and I doubt they have any bonus content, but if there's a show you've always wanted on DVD but can't find in stores, they might have it. Plus a whole bunch of non-cartoon content too like old movies and other types of TV shows. Amazon sells them too, but for like twice as much $ for some reason. Most are cheaper here. Here's the link for just the HB stuff. They have complete series sets for Funky Phantom, Josie & The PC's in Outer Space, Speed Buggy among others. www.wbshop.com/Hanna-Barbera/HANNABARBERA,default,sc.html Mark |
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Post by Doo on Mar 5, 2011 9:48:16 GMT -5
I saw that site too.
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Post by sagg on Mar 5, 2011 15:06:53 GMT -5
Thanks for the heads up. Thundarr and Dark Water are pretty cool. I wish they had the 60's cartoons with Space Ghost, the Heculoids, the Galaxy Trio/Birdman, Fantastic Four, Shazzan, and the rest of the superhero ones. Those were great cartoons to me. It was the so-called "violence" that got them off the air that made them great in the first place!  |
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Post by ScoobyAddict on Mar 5, 2011 19:27:42 GMT -5
Thanks for the link!!!
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Post by ahkyahnan on Mar 6, 2011 22:18:35 GMT -5
I wish they had the 60's cartoons with Space Ghost, the Heculoids, the Galaxy Trio/Birdman, Fantastic Four, Shazzan, and the rest of the superhero ones. They do have some of those. The page I linked to are just their 'made to order' sets. Apparently ones they don't think there's a big enough market for to mass produce. I know for certain though that Space Ghost and Birdman at least are out on regular DVD sets. Stores, online, wherever they can be ordered. Not sure about the others. Mark |
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Post by ahkyahnan on Mar 6, 2011 22:19:07 GMT -5
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Post by SpiderScooby on Mar 7, 2011 3:13:34 GMT -5
This is a great way to get thses old shows out there, thoough I kinda hope they don't release Scooby and Scrappy Doo this way. I think, even though it's Scrappy Doo, it would still sell pretty well with a regular release.
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Post by ahkyahnan on Mar 7, 2011 12:26:59 GMT -5
I'd hope those would be released as regular sets as well. A little off-topic, but after watching some of the Scooby & Scrappy Shows for the first time in years (on Boomerang a few weeks ago) I was surprised that he wasn't as annoying as I remembered.
Those 1st season episodes were still pretty good. And those 2nd season 7 minute shorts I wouldn't have cared much for even if it had just been Shaggy & Scooby and no Scrappy. I'm just not too crazy about the format changes they started making around then as a whole. I'll still watch them, but they're not among my favorites. I did like "Nutcracker Scoob" at Xmas though, which was really alot like a 1st Season Scooby/Scrappy episode.
Mark
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Post by ccook on Apr 21, 2011 18:17:01 GMT -5
Don't know why Thundarr The Barbarian is in that batch--that was by sister studio Ruby-Spears.
Personally, I'm holding out for H-B's first show, Ruff & Reddy.
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Post by ahkyahnan on Apr 21, 2011 21:07:37 GMT -5
I remember watching Ruff & Reddy when I was young. Been a long time since I've seen it.
I guess Warner owns the rights to the Ruby Spears stuff too. There stuff was so similar...not surprisingly...to the HB stuff that I guess they figure most people look at them as simply being an offshoot of each other. Like Fangface too.
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Post by ccook on Apr 28, 2011 7:49:57 GMT -5
Ruff & Reddy most likely won't see official home video because the Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound sets sold so poorly that Warner wouldn't think of putting out something even fewer people today have heard of. There are a couple of outlets that are selling bootleg DVDs of Ruff & Reddy (recorded off Boomerang).
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